Somaticasual:An entrepreneur? Involved in what we almost all acknowledge will be a legal industry in less than a decade? You don't say...

//I'd call that "getting in the game early"

I'm going back to school this fall, to finish my degree in horticulture. When my advising counselor asked "why horticulture?", I brought up this point. A whole new industry is opening up, and it will need educated workers. Cannabis isn't my particular interest, but it will attract grads that would otherwise be competing for jobs elsewhere. She was a little aghast when I first mentioned it, but I had her rolling when I concluded with "it's a field with a lot of potential for growth, if you'll pardon the puns!"

everybody and their asshole brother is making the shiat.. making the shiat is easy, and everyone thinks thier shiat is special.. but it aint.. and pretty soon the market will correct itself to weed out (snert) the chaff, and the best way to make money off the movement is to support the movement.. I'd rather sell bongs and the assorted supplies than the product, and barring that, I would sell the products that are used to grow the target product in question.. in both instances, the end product of my business is interchangeable to other "legitimate" operations.

long story short.. I would capitalize on the pot economy by selling hydro supplies.

PolyHatSnake:Somaticasual: An entrepreneur? Involved in what we almost all acknowledge will be a legal industry in less than a decade? You don't say...

//I'd call that "getting in the game early"

I'm going back to school this fall, to finish my degree in horticulture. When my advising counselor asked "why horticulture?", I brought up this point. A whole new industry is opening up, and it will need educated workers. Cannabis isn't my particular interest, but it will attract grads that would otherwise be competing for jobs elsewhere. She was a little aghast when I first mentioned it, but I had her rolling when I concluded with "it's a field with a lot of potential for growth, if you'll pardon the puns!"

Not a bad fallback degree even if legalization doesn't happen, and lol on the puns...

everybody and their asshole brother is making the shiat.. making the shiat is easy, and everyone thinks thier shiat is special.. but it aint.. and pretty soon the market will correct itself to weed out (snert) the chaff, and the best way to make money off the movement is to support the movement.. I'd rather sell bongs and the assorted supplies than the product, and barring that, I would sell the products that are used to grow the target product in question.. in both instances, the end product of my business is interchangeable to other "legitimate" operations.

long story short.. I would capitalize on the pot economy by selling hydro supplies.

Someone's bound to know this - in Colorado, is growing-your-own legalised and what are the tax implications? I'm Australian, where I live it's illegal for me to grow tobacco I'm pretty sure, because of the tax, but I can home-brew beer and save good money on the relatively high alcohol tax we have here.

Hydro supplies are legal and are sold, so folk can grow "tomatoes" here, but it might be a bad time to be building a business around this in places where weed is legal cos it's only a matter of time before the weed industry lobbyists encourage the government to shut them down for tax revenue reasons plus their own self-interest.

PolyHatSnake:Somaticasual: An entrepreneur? Involved in what we almost all acknowledge will be a legal industry in less than a decade? You don't say...

//I'd call that "getting in the game early"

I'm going back to school this fall, to finish my degree in horticulture. When my advising counselor asked "why horticulture?", I brought up this point. A whole new industry is opening up, and it will need educated workers. Cannabis isn't my particular interest, but it will attract grads that would otherwise be competing for jobs elsewhere. She was a little aghast when I first mentioned it, but I had her rolling when I concluded with "it's a field with a lot of potential for growth, if you'll pardon the puns!"